Diagnostic Teaching of Reading: Techniques for Instruction and Assessment (Myeducationlab) - Softcover

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Barbara J. Walker is professor of reading at Oklahoma State University-Stillwater/Tulsa where she teaches courses in reading difficulties and literacy coaching. Dr. Walker received her Ed.D. from Oklahoma State University in Curriculum and Instruction, specializing in reading difficulty. Prior to returning to Oklahoma, Dr. Walker was a professor in the Department of Special Education and Reading at Montana State University, Billings, where she coordinated the Reading Clinic. She was a reading specialist in the elementary schools of Stillwater, Oklahoma; organized and taught the college reading program at Vernon Regional Junior College in Vernon, Texas; and coordinated the educational program at the Hogar Paul Harris in Cochabamba, Bolivia.

Dr. Walker’s research interests focus on teacher development, early literacy intervention, reading difficulties, and literacy coaching. Her publications include Literacy Coaching: A Collaborative Approach (2010), Techniques for Reading Assessment and Instruction (2005), Supporting Struggling Readers (2003), The Supervisor’s Handbook for the Reading Team (1998) with Ronald Scherry and Lesley Morrow, Tips for the Reading Team (1998) and The Reading Team: A Handbook for K―3 Volunteer Tutors (1997) with Lesley Morrow and Interactive Handbook for Understanding Reading Diagnosis (1994) with Kathy Roskos.

Dr. Walker received Oklahoma State University’s Regents Distinguished Professor for Research in 2007, College Reading Association’s 1997 A. B. Herr Award for outstanding contributions to reading education and was a distinguished finalist for the International Reading Association’s 1991 Albert J. Harris Award for research in reading disabilities.

Dr. Walker is a past President (2008-2009) of the International Reading Association, an organization that influences over 300,000 reading educators worldwide. She is a state, national, and international professional leader, having served on the board of directors of the International Reading Association, the College Reading Association, the Montana State Reading Council, and the Oklahoma Reading Council. Most important to her, however, is preparing teachers to work with struggling readers. In this capacity, she has helped more than 3,000 struggling readers improve their literacy.

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Featuring classroom-based, teacher-driven approaches to effective reading assessment and remediation, the new edition of this market-leading book provides up-to-date coverage of reading processes, their assessment, and their corrective instruction. The highly popular authors present thorough treatments of reading and writing at every stage of development and include assessments in their entirety for emergent literacy, including concepts about print and the concept of word, and many tests of phonological awareness, developmental spelling, word recognition, fluency, and phonics knowledge.

The Eighth Edition of Understanding Reading Problems includes the following new features:

·         A comprehensive inventory for assessing emergent literacy, including several new assessments of phonological awareness (Chapter 3).

·         Detailed instruction for administering, scoring, and interpreting an informal reading inventory, plus sample sections of an IRI (Chapter 5 and in the supplements).

·         A thorough discussion of Response to Intervention (Chapter 2).

·         Extensive assessment of the often-neglected topic of narrative comprehension of early readers (Chapter 3).

·         New instruments for assessing phonological awareness.

·         New reading and spelling-based tests of phonics knowledge.

·         A new instrument for assessing students’ developmental spelling in K through 12 (Chapter 8).

·         A new chapter on teaching culturally and linguistically diverse students (Chapter 9).

·         The Eighth Edition is organized by developmental levels, with explanations of reading issues at each level, approaches to assessment, and teaching methods delivered at the point of need.